"It had never occurred to Giles that there was something perfectly sensible about wanting to hold onto innocence. He had always gone in for the idea that since we only pass this way once, experience counts for everything."

“A knife is neither true nor false, but anyone impaled on its blade is in error.”

Source : Rene Daumal (2004). “Mount Analogue”, p.37, The Overlook Press

“There are hundreds of credible reports, many with multiple witnesses, of humanoids in association with landed spacecraft.”

Source : Steven M. Greer (1999). “Extraterrestrial Contact: The Evidence and Implications”, Crossing Point Incorporated

“When I turned about 12 or 13, I realised that being funny wasn't about remembering jokes. It was about creating them.”

“But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.”

“People used to live lives of quiet desperation - now they go on talk shows!”

“Things get done only if the data we gather can inform and inspire those in a position to make a difference.”

“See the hand that nursed the serpent. The fine hasped pipes of her fingerbones. The skin bewenned and speckled. The veins are milkblue and bulby. A thin gold ring set with diamonds. That raised the once child's heart of her to agonies of passion before I was. Here is the anguish of mortality. Hopes wrecked, love sundered. See the mother sorrowing. How everything that I was warned of's come to pass.”

“As much as a disappointment this was, I can only learn from it and become a better fighter.”